When you're sitting in front of your high-definition TV playing Battlefield or Call of Duty on your PS4, take a second to think about the roots of the device and what it has actually taken to get that console in your living room. Its predecessors, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and the original PlayStation, all acted as stepping stones for the behemoth gaming console we have today, but things could have been so very much different if a partnership between Nintendo and Sony hadn't gone sour in the early 1990s leading to this "Sony SNES" amalgamation being scrapped.
